Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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